Weekend

The Trinity College Dublin emeritus professor of psychology reflects on family, Ireland and anger

Father’s Day the following year and the year after that were hard but, with time, they became easier

We need to rethink what we mean by ‘the economy’ to protect birds and other wildlife

Childcare in Ireland: Data-driven approach needed if Government is ever to find a balance that supports families and caregivers

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Prolonged exposure to noise pollution can affect your heart and brain function, disturb your sleep and cause severe annoyance

Sometimes, when a day is hard to face, I hear my late friend telling me to ‘make a start’

Playing divide-and-conquer between driving, cycling and walking is a distraction from the real problem

Veteran journalist and broadcaster, now 80, on the dangers of his profession and his continuing affinity with Ireland

Economically, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are by far the most successful of post-Soviet Republics

Following a recent column describing women changing names as the ‘normalisation of symbolic control’, readers share their views on the matter

Southwest Virginia, which Barbara Kingsolver put on the literary map, is poor but also beautiful and friendly, with a rich cultural heritage

Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin was discovered dead in the jungle nine days after she went missing from a resort in Malaysia in August 2019. For her family she remains a cherished inspiration

Climate change is reducing productivity of the high seas through warming and depletion of nutrients and oxygen

In her final monthly column, the female commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says her country’s allies overestimate Russia’s strength and underestimate Ukraine’s

Ella McSweeney: The Department of Housing is proposing to give up trying to restore or naturalise many of our rivers

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the red damselfly, the May bug and the barrel jellyfish

No matter what people say, there are many ways to find ties that bind

Replacing car journeys with the train has clear benefits, but it must be convenient to win over the masses

A coming together of minds sees Rolls-Royce 20-Ghost Club and Irish Georgian Society mark 45 years of working together

Poet’s writing had to change in response to violence in Northern Ireland, a pressure not of his own making

Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK

New RTÉ TV series tells the story of the island over thousands of years in a way that both informs and challenges

Whales are disappearing from Ireland’s southwest coasts, as trawlers take much of their food

Like the enchanted gift in a fairy tale, a city will change you in ways you can’t predict, and not all of them will be kind

Riders to the Sea and Macbeth come to the Mick Lally Theatre as part of Galway International Arts Festival

New research published by OECD shows poorer students in Ireland more likely than ever before to finish college and better their lives

From the housing crisis and precarious work to putting off big life decisions such as marriage and children, four people aged 19-37 are wary of what’s ahead

The veteran photographer captured Samuel Beckett in Paris and London as well as the then Lady Diana Spencer in 1980

Unlike trees, a living, healthy bog will soak up more carbon per square metre than almost any other ecosystem on Earth

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the common carder bee, a rudely disturbed lizard, and a very fine stonechat photograph

How a young educator gave a child refuge by introducing her to the healing power of writing

Researchers have found that the device often uses less than half the electricity of an oven

Irish people are among those buried on New York’s Hart Island, final resting place of the unknown, the unclaimed and those who couldn’t afford a ‘proper’ burial

The author and Irish Times columnist on her unusual introduction to the Burren, her contentment levels, and getting angry

Frugality and waste avoidance are the overwhelming drivers for people to store unused electrical equipment. But it can be put to better use

The Dublin club has been a creative hub for regulars who have gone on to write books, star in Love/Hate or the Meteor ad, or become a movie star

As the country goes full throttle and rents hit all-time highs, it’s clear the economy is overheating. It may be time to chill

As tourists to Spain each year nears 100 million, many see Airbnb lettings as a culprit of the current housing crisis

Canadian author of The Adversary and winner of €100,000 Irish prize talks about global politics, misanthropy and what makes Newfoundland so interesting